GameStop is pivoting to retro video games at choose places. Because the trade moves to digital media — and the retailer struggles to adapt to the shifting panorama (together with a short-lived stab at NFTs) — the corporate is betting on the old fashioned. The GameStop Retro places will inventory bodily consoles, discs and cartridges from basic Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and Sega platforms.
The retailer introduced the Retro GameStop places in a post on X (Twitter). The corporate additionally has a website the place you possibly can seek for retro-friendly places inside a 100-mile radius. (I discovered a grand whole of 1 in my metropolis.)
GameStop lists 18 basic programs supported by its Retro shops, stretching again to the 8-bit glory days of the Nintendo Leisure System. Right here’s the entire record (in response to the corporate’s transient announcement), together with their US launch years:
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NES (1985)
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SNES (1991)
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Recreation Boy (1989)
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Sega Genesis (1989)
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PlayStation (1995)
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Sega Saturn (1995)
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Nintendo 64 (1996)
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Sega Dreamcast (1999)
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PS2 (2000)
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Recreation Boy Advance (2001)
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Nintendo GameCube (2001)
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Authentic Xbox (2001)
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Nintendo DS (2004)
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Xbox 360 (2005)
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Nintendo Wii (2006)
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PS3 (2006)
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Nintendo Wii U (2012)
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PS Vita (2012)
You’ll discover that the PSP isn’t among the many programs listed. Engadget emailed GameStop to attempt to verify it’s omitted and study extra in regards to the initiative. We’ll replace this story if we hear again.
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